someone once said the earth will eventually stop spinning on its axis due to the accumulated weight of all the National Geographics piled up all over the world.
LOL, funny you should mention that - one of my relatives was trying to get rid of decades worth of old Nat Geo’s - my mother offered to take them - straight to my house. I told her NOT TO DO THIS. I do not have room and the kids can get whatever info they need for reports off of the Internet - she kept saying the “kids will need those Nag Geo’s.” Nothing would convince her otherwise.
Sure enough, she had the relative load them up in her car and she brought them straight to my house - I would not let her take them out of the trunk, back seat, etc. - and made her take them back to her own home.
She called hospitals, old folk’s homes, doctors’ offices - all over town - she was absolutely shocked NO ONE wanted them.
She ended up tossing them - and it took weeks of filling up her recycle bins.
One magazine you never threw away after reading it. My grandfather had stacks of them in his cellar going back to the 20s. Besides the topless native girls, the car ads and the World War II issues kept me occupied for hours.